...I have studied piano and music theory at Oberlin College and privately with various Jazz and Theory teachers. I am adept at working with a wide variety of ages and abilities and have taught 3-97 year old students- beginner to advanced including those with special needs. I have been teaching music lessons for 20+ years although I am new to the Wyzant platform. (read more)
...Former students have gone on to UK schools, European schools, and US schools, such as Harvard, Dartmouth, UPenn, Brown, Georgetown, NYU, and UCLA, and UCSD. I worked to deconstruct Common Core standards in California. I have acted as co-chair of Literacy Review committee where we revised English curriculum using AERO/Common Core. (read more)
...I have experience with phonemic awareness, reading fluency, reading comprehension, writing (reports and creative writing), math, social studies, science, and nature for students going into grades 1-7. I am most definitely open and interested in working with students in other age ranges that seem... (read more)
...I have developed a variety of teaching methods to help students read and pronounce words by learning the phonetic make-up of single letters, groups of letters, and dividing words into syllables. I have taught study skills to a variety of grade levels over my 17 years of teaching. I can help stu... (read more)